Essays on Narcissistic Personality

Robert Goren Law and Oder Criminal Intent and Carl Rogers Personality Theory

Carl Roger’s is a renowned psychologist that propagated the Personality Theory which explains the behaviors and characteristics of an individual. The argument shows that the formation of a person’ self-concept results from self-actualization behavior. He said that the self-actualizing characteristics determine a person’s personality. The self-actualization tendencies are as a consequence of the events and the environment in which a person grows up in, as well as the person’s genetic make-up. The environment provides the stimulus that prompts responses from the person. A repeat of the stimuli prompts the development of a self-concept. For any individual ...

Narcissistic personality is a controversial topic to discuss due to the debatable matter of pros and cons attached to its nature. Mostly, society viewed narcissism as a serious cultural and social threat particularly if it concerns a leader of a nation. Experts, on the other hand, pressed in the significance of the personality type as an attribute to a great leadership. In fact, presidents of the United States of America were detected to have been diagnosed with narcissism with varying levels, manifestations, and characteristics of the personality type. At the top of the list of the narcissistic presidents was ...

Homework 5

When submitting this file, be sure the Be sure you have reviewed this module/week’s lesson and presentations along with the practice data analysis before proceeding to the homework exercises. Complete all analyses in SPSS, then copy and paste your output and graphs into your homework document file. Answer any written questions (such as the text-based questions or the APA Participants section) in the appropriate place within the same file. The data in the columns to the left represent IQ scores of a sample of 30 high school students. In the general population, IQ scores have a mean of ...

Abstract

Everyone has their own individual character. People’s characters may be similar but definitely are not the same. Most people do not have issues with it and have no problems with their interactions in society and compliance with its laws and regulations. However, some personal features are very different from the expected norms and from generally accepted rules of behavior that cause irritation, discomfort and lack of understanding of others. Such features of temper can cause problems, which affect not only patients but also their close and distant surroundings. Such condition is called personality disorder. Worth noting, that patients ...

Anti-social personality disorder is a chronic mental condition that affects the way the patient thinks, perceive situations, and relate with other people around. People ailing from this disorder have no feelings with regards to what is considered right and wrong. They often disregard the rights, feelings, and expectations of the people they interact with. It makes the patients malicious in that they tend to treat other people harshly without caring about the outcome of such unfair treatment. They are in conflicts with others since they try to manipulate and treat people with arrogance. The current paper seeks to describe ...

Narcissistic Personality Disorder, like other personality disorders, is a mental health condition in which people have behaviors and traits that are distressing to themselves and others; the disorder interferes with other areas of their lives such as school, work, and relationships. Narcissistic Personality Disorder specifically is more than just self-love. The name of the disorder comes from the Greek myth about Narcissus, in which the young man Narcissus sees his reflection in a pool of water and falls in love with it to the point that he cannot tear his gaze away; he wastes away and dies. Although this is not ...

Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) refers to a disorder in which an individual becomes excessively preoccupied with his or her power, adequacy, vanity and prestige, even at the expense of others (Schulze et al., 2013). In other words, a person with narcissistic personality disorder does not see the mental damage he or she is likely to cause to himself/herself and others. Current statistics indicates that one percent of the entire population is affected by NPD.

Persons who have been diagnosed with NPD have excessive feelings of self-importance. In essence, such individual possess or exhibit a high sense of entitlement, as well as, ...

According to the DSM 5, it identifies individuals who have Narcissistic Personality Disorder lack the ability to empathize with other people and the primary belief that the world revolves around them Narcissistic individuals tend to have higher self-esteem characterized by their sense of grandiosity. Heinz Kohut that it is natural for children to undergo the primitive stage of grandiosity, children develop a sense of inkling that everything and all needs revolve around them. Ronningstam (2011) mentioned that it is important for the primary caregivers of children to do some agreeing in the child’s grandiosity. This is approving to the ...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in civilians vs. military

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the main psychological challenge affecting veterans. According to Gaylord, Holcomb and Zolezzi (2009), up to thirty percent of combat veterans suffer from PTSD. In addition, up to 20 percent non-injured war veterans suffer from PTSD (Gaylord, Holcomb, & Zolezzi, 2009). With respect to civilians, victims of burns are more susceptible to PTSD than others. However, it is evident that PTSD is more common in military personnel than civilians.

Personality Disorders (PDs)

These are mental disorders that occur following maladaptive cognition, inner experience, and behaviors, manifested across many spheres and contradict societally acceptable behaviors (Kreger, 2008). These disorders develop ...

Clinical Diagnosis and Rationale for the Diagnosis

Randle McMurphy is the protagonist in the movie “One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest”. Although he does not overtly show any mental disorder, he seems to be suffering from narcissistic personality disorder (Zaentz & Forma, 1975). Randle McMurphy suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorders (in Axis 1), which, as he manifests, is proven by several symptoms. The patient employs humiliation and shame to win over others, exploits the situation to gratify himself and becomes jealous easily. He is also confident, arrogant and contemptuous, living in unrealistic fantasies, beauty, power, intelligence and romance, and appearing less emotional (American Psychiatric Association, 2014). ...

In Willa Cather’s short story “Paul’s Case,” the titular character has no shortage of problems – his middle-class malaise, his dissatisfaction with life as it is, and the frustration of the ideals of art not matching the mundane nature of his existence. However, one implicit, unspoken frustration he has is Paul’s sexuality, which is either latent or difficult to openly express in his life: “Central to the full experience of the story is recognition of the fact of Paul’s homosexuality, a ‘fact’ that is nowhere stated openly” (Summers 108). Combined with the aforementioned issues, it is no ...

Narcissism

The trait in question is narcissism. The unit of measure of this trait is Narcissistic Personality Inventory. Narcissism is the quality of one who seeks gratification from vanity; an egotistic person who admires excessively his or her attributes (Holmes, 2001). This is usually derived from arrogance. A person suffering from narcissism is said to have Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It is considered to be a societal ill and is a concept of psychoanalytic theory. The Narcissistic Personality Inventory is a measure that is taken to measure the standards of Narcissism psychological research (American Psychological Association, 1987). The measure is used to measure ...

Joel Stein opened his argument with a very strong empathic tone “I am about to do what old people have done throughout history: call those younger than me lazy, entitled, selfish and shallow. But I have studies! I have statistics! I have quotes from respected academics! Unlike my parents, my grandparents and my great-grandparents, I have proof.” Stein’s premise goes with the idea that despite the fact that millenials (the Me Me Me generation)—those who were born between the period 1980s to 2000—are inherently narcissistic, selfish, shallow, lazy, and obsessed with entitlement traits, they may not be that ...

Abstract

This paper will reflect over the Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It will do this by summarizing an article on this disorder. Last, it will state why this information is important.

Main Body

In the article, “Narcissistic personality disorder is not harmless behavior,” by Paula Carrasquillo she brings told information and reality on this behavior. She states that this disorder mostly go undiagnosed. Carrasasquillo also mentions that this disorder can be hard for an individual to recognize unless they are adequately educated. When she states about being educated, she is not mention for the readers to run out and sign up for ...

Psychological Disorders

As a result of a traumatic event that happened in her life, Karen, the patient described in case study 4, suffers from a dissociative disorder, namely the dissociative amnesia. After her baby has died, at only 15 months because of a cold that evolved in a respiratory disorder that could have not been treated, the woman and her husband, Larry buried their son Austin, three days after he had died. The next day when she woke up and she did not find her son in his crib, the woman panicked. The sorrow that the woman had experienced was a traumatic event (BehaveNet, “Dissociative Amnesia”) that ...

INTRODUCTION

In the film Titanic (1997), Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winslet) meet each other on the fated RMS Titanic, which is fated to be sunk at the hands of a stray iceberg. Their quest to survive is framed within this sweeping historical tale, and surrounded by many characters, each exemplifying their own usage of psychological concepts. The character of Caledon Hockley (Billy Zane) displays a classic example of narcissistic personality disorder, while Jack displays his placement on all of the "Big Five" personality traits throughout the course of the movie.

PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPT ONE: Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a disorder that leaves an individual ...

Larry Gordon and Luis Sahagun’s article “Generation Y’s Ego Trip Takes a Bad Turn” is very thought provoking. The topic of this article is a new generation of young people who seek to promote themselves through the use of the internet. These young people crave an imaginary audience; it is all about their self image to them. They want people to pay attention to them and admire them. The authors argue that such a behavior coincidentally resembles just a few classic symptoms of the psychological narcissistic personality disorder, such as the need for admiration. Data from a survey of 16,000 college ...

When faced with a problem, every human being feels nervous or anxious. Anxiety is therefore a normal human emotion which covers physical tension, mental apprehension, dissociative anxiety, and physical symptoms. Anxiety disorder is a very serious mental illness that is accompanied by constantly overwhelming fears and worries. It is the abnormal and pathological anxiety and fear (Gelder, Mayou & Geddes (2005)). It can cause so much distress that the victim’s ability to lead a normal life is disrupted. Several disorders are covered under the umbrella “anxiety disorder”. They include phobic, panic, and generalized anxiety disorders (Gelder et al 2005). The emotions range from ...